Java Developer

Programme Name: LCST

Location: Bristol, UK / Hybrid (working from the Bristol office 1-2 times a month)

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Role Overview:

As a Java Developer at Leidos, you will will play a key technical role in the delivery, support, and maintenance of our IT solution.  With a strong focus on in house products built to provide support to our core messaging capability.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Act as a developer, integrator, and analyst for complex and technically difficult assignments; collaborate with other developers working on production issues
• Participate in application walkthroughs and in peer code reviews for conformance to standards
• Create and maintain appropriate documentation
• Consistently apply Information Technology software standards and help to establish department specific standards
• Building Java Programs to support the business needs working in tandem with a complex IT solution
• A good understanding of Build and Deployment best practice

Skills Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
• Solid Java experience
• Must hold or be eligible to apply for SC clearance.
• Practical and pragmatic approach – willing to get ‘hands on’ to deliver what is needed.
• Strong communication skills, fluent in English
• Experience working within a Linux environment
• Experience working in a cloud-hosted environment

Our ideal candidate would also have the following:

• Demonstrated proficiency of using JAX-RS, JSF and JMS
• Demonstrated proficiency in Front end web standards: HTML, CSS, simple Javascript
• Demonstrated proficiency in Oracle database query development, optimization, and tuning
• Demonstrated proficiency in full disciplined SDLC lifecycle frameworks and methodologies
• Experience working in an AWS environment
• Experience working with Jakarta 10+, Jakarta-WS-RS, XML, Git
• Integration experience working with XSLT / IBM MQ / IBM Sterling OMS

Clearance Requirements:

• BPSS Pre-screening required to Start
• SC required for the role
• ​Must hold or be eligible to apply for SC clearance

Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction...

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
•    Contributory Pension Scheme
•    Private Medical Insurance
•    33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
•    Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

•    Flexible Working Scheme

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture.  We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.  If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

The Logistics Commodities & Services Transformation (LCST) Programme for the UK Ministry of Defence is a critical effort to enhance and improve the UK’s defence supply chain. The programme provides essential services such as storage and distribution for the MOD's materiel, including a global freight service and the procurement and inventory management of 70,000 commodity NATO Stock Number (NSNs).

Working together as Team Leidos we are helping to transform the UK's defence supply chain by providing an integration of a complex mixture of services, at low risk, using a modern suite of systems that will deliver one version of the truth. For the first time, the MOD will see the whole picture, as it is happening.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.          

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.